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Logbook of the Gay Head (Ship) of New Bedford, Mass., mastered and kept by Lewis H. Lawrence, on voyage from 1860 October 2-1865 April 12

by: Gay Head (Ship); Gay Head (Ship); Lawrence, Lewis H.

Publication date: 1860
Topics: J.B. Wood & Co. (New Bedford, Mass.), Bowhead whale, Desertions, Naval, Finback whale, Globicephala, Gray whale, Humpback whale, Marine accidents, Medicine, Naval, Mutiny, Punishment, Right whales, Seafaring life, Seals (Animals), Ships--Equipment and supplies, Sperm whale, Voyages and travels, Walrus, Whalers (Persons), Whales, Whaling--Massachusetts--New Bedford, Whaling masters, Women and the sea, Apia (Samoa)--Description and travel, Arctic Archipelago (Nunavut and N.W.T.)--Description and travel, Arctic Ocean--Description and travel, Atlantic Ocean--Description and travel, Cape Verde--Description and travel, Faial Island (Azores)--Description and travel, Hawaii--Description and travel, Niuatoputapu Island (Tonga)--Description and travel, Raoul Island (Kermadec Islands)--Description and travel, Saint Paul Island (Terres australes et antarctiques francaises)--Description and travel, South Pacific Ocean--Description and travel, Sydney (N.S.W.)--Description and travel, Upolu (Samoa)--Description and travel, Lawrence, Lewis Henry, 1822 or 3-1901
Collection: newbedfordwhalingmuseumlogbooksandjournals; newbedfordwhalingmuseum; americana
Contributor: New Bedford Whaling Museum
Language: English
Item Size: 506.6M

Log, kept by Lewis H. Lawrence, relating to a whaling voyage to the Atlantic, South Pacific, and Arctic oceans; Includes descriptions of types of whales (blackfish, bowhead, finback, gray, humpback, right, and sperm), seals, and walrus seen or taken, accidents at sea, mutiny, punishment on ship, shipboard medicine, desertions, and women on ship; and whale stamps, drawings, and list of provisions. Other places represented include Faial Island, Cape Verde, Saint Paul Island, Raoul Island, Niuatoputapu Island, Upolu, Apia, Sydney, and Honolulu; Whaling vessel, out of New Bedford, Mass., mastered by Lewis H. Lawrence, on voyage from 2 Oct. 1860-12 Apr. 1865, to the Western, Coast of Brazil, Tristan, East Cape, French Rock, Vasquez, Solomon Islands, Middle, Tonga Island, Anadyr Sea, Arctic Ocean whaling grounds; owner-agent: James B. Wood & Co.; built at Rochester, Mass., 1852; lost in Arctic, 1871

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